Trials Tank Jewelry Enchants and Must Have Sets.

kylewwefan

I've been seeing many discussions about tanking sets, but I think the enchants make more difference than the sets. At least for starting out. Shield Play enchant is beast and should always be on at least one if not 2 pieces. I had been running them on all 3 til recently I changed one to flame resistance.

Many will put magic regeneration or reduce spell cost on one piece. I couldn't believe the difference flame resistance makes, I'm considering putting it on 2 pieces. It really depends on the trial your doing I think. Shock Resistance could definitely come in handy also.

Everyone that's been running Vet Trials has undoubtedly been collecting Eternal Yokeda Gold Jewelry and pieces. I'm trying to work with it because it has gold Jewelry and Minor Aegis. It gets the job done, but the 5 piece is a bit wacky.




Anyone that wants to be a tank will eventually end up with several tanking sets. My first good tanking set was armor master. Great beginner set.....almost never use it anymore. Pariah, Bahara, Imperium, etc. they're all ok.

If you're starting out, many tanks overlook weapon. Obviously you must have S/B but defending weapon trait adds quite a bit to your resistance.

Every Tank needs to have Ebon. It hands down gives the best group utility of any tanking set. If going with 2 tanks, figure who's wearing it, because does not stack. Footman catches flack from the math people, but anyone that knows; it is great at what it does.

Meta is Tavas, Bloodspawn, Dragon or Ebon...whatever it's alright for generating Agressive Warhorn Ulti.

Monster helms.....I really like the Lord Warden. It procs constantly and gives you and anyone near you incredible resistance. Mighty Chudan I think is often overlooked as a tanking set. It's great for someone learning still I think. BloodSpawn is used for ulti generation and is also a great tank set regardless.

idk

I wouldn't be concerned about gold jewelry and having some jewelry in gold is not the best criteria for choosing which gear to wear.

Minor Aegis is not that great and the Yokeda set is lack luster. You have names
Much better choices. Great to collect a set since there may be some good one off use for it or it may get buffed.

For enchants, a tank doesn't need to add flame of shock resist as long as CP is spent wisely. Heck, as a vamp I've stood in fire without issue. Regen and cost reduction serves more utility for the tank, even block cost reduction will help the tank starting to learn his/her profession.

Bloodspawn is a great monster set and you mentioned Lord Warden which is good situationally and really never bad. Chudan at 2pc duplicates the buff wenalready give ourselves from class skills which makes it less desirable than the other sets.

Adding to your meta, alkosh is a good set for a tank to have for when no one in
The group is wearing it. Great debuff on a boss.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Meta is meta for a reason. You get the best results in group content if your tank and healer are Ulti-bots. You also forgot Alkosh. Is it a tank set? Not really, but that is where it makes the most sense. The DPS increase is huge. Most good tanks essentially tank in utility gear, not tanking gear. You dont need to be at the resist cap for any fight in the game.

Perhaps you would build differently if a fight had unlimited length, but the faster stuff dies, the less damage you take. It becomes a bit of a circular argument. The more you build for defense, the longer the fight will take and the longer you will have to defend.

As for Eternal Yokeda, I am sorry, but this set is a joke. Any set that is based on you being dead, is pretty laughable IMO.

As for Jewelry Enchants, every build is different. Shield play is certainly the obvious choice for a tank, but I know many trial tanks that dont run it at all. DKs for example can stack magic regen and use Earthen Heart skills to manage their stamina.

kylewwefan

Thanks for the input. Guess I was mainly talking to players new to tanking trials. I do wish the eternal yokeda was better than it is, because it's the only gold jewelry tanking set I have I have heard the buzz about alkosh but don't know that I'd place it in must have set.

There's so much good gear that you can make work as a tank and many that are situational. I often times go Christmas tree, Ebon / Hircine , to give the group better utility if most the group is stam, which is often the case.

SienneYviete

kylewwefan wrote: »

Thanks for the input. Guess I was mainly talking to players new to tanking trials. I do wish the eternal yokeda was better than it is, because it's the only gold jewelry tanking set I have I have heard the buzz about alkosh but don't know that I'd place it in must have set.

There's so much good gear that you can make work as a tank and many that are situational. I often times go Christmas tree, Ebon / Hircine , to give the group better utility if most the group is stam, which is often the case.

Alkosh for end game raiding is absolutely a must have set, the tank is the only member of the party that has the capability to keep a sufficient uptime on this set. Forget the 2-4 piece bonus it is irrelevant the 5 piece is a godly bonus for any raid group.

Chudan is a terrible monster set, it takes two precious item slots on our character yet provides a bonus that one skill that will also come with utility can do. Lord warden has it's uses ie offtanking rakkhat or the destroyers/gargoyles in VHRC hard mode.

Footman is absolute garbage and I would never recommend wasting 5 armor slots for it even on a low cp toon or someone new to tanking there are way better craftable defensive options tavas/hist bark/armor master.

As for enchants this varies by tank some use shieldplay for cheaper block cost, some use magicka regen and others use cost reduction glyphs, specific element defensive enchants are not advised as this is covered by your base resists and champion points and really is a waste of a glyph.

IMO massive amounts of defensive stats are a waste as raid buffed you can meet and surpass your targets wearing 5 pieces of heavy armor with no reinforced or nirn, group utility is the focus of end game tanking hence the reason we run sets like ebon/tava/dragon/bloodspawn/powerful assault. Basically the more offensive utility we can provide the less defensive capability we require.

caperon

Meta is not really tava's + bloodspawn in high end trial guilds. In trials your horn is part of a rotatin with other horns, so you don't really need that much ulti regen because you will need to wait the other horns. I see histbark + alkosh + monster very strong for a main tank. If you are the only tank you can use ebon instead of histbark.

Yokeda is not very good, since in trials tank is usually the last to die, and even if it procs, you lose agro, so someone will die anyway. The minor Aegis bonus is ok, but most tanks deaths in trials come from weapon swaping at the wrong time. With minor Aegis there is the lunar bastion set, that has an ok 5 piece bonus (I like to use it in DSA, it saves some live here and there).

About monster sets, Warden is good, probably better than bloodspawn in many cases, chudan is good too, it lets you free 1 skill slot so you can run guard o any other skill you like to avoid weapon swaping, etc. Even you can go with 2 diferent monster pieces to get extra bonus, like double magicka regen, that works too.

In enchantments, i find myself as magicka DK tank out of magicka more often than out of stamina, so in my case i use 1 shield play, 2 magicka regen. All depends on your tanking style. Keep in mind that stacking block cost reduction has dimishing returns. Probably playing with CP youcan get to similar results with any enchantment combination.

Outside trials, just use what you like most, any tanking set will get the job done. I tank pledges with grothgar or infernal guardian for the lols.

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Check @Woeler videos about the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjVT7fo5uU4